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Nerds of the world jump of happiness, for HP has brought the legendary HP 15C Scientific Calculator and the HP 12C Financial Calculator for the iPhone and iPod touch, complete with custom skins and programming. What are these “calculators” I am talking about, you ask? Please, allow me to pull a Chris Anderson here: The HP-15C was a high end scientific programmable.

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HP Invents Time Machine, Converts iPhone into Classic Calculator [IPhone]

Warner Bros is super, super smart about marketing their Blu-ray discs.

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Zack Snyder to Host Watchmen Screening Over BD Live [Blu-Ray]

Listen up, porn purveyors of the world: This is the first iPhone application to contain bare boobs. The $1.99 app for iPhone and iPod touch only showed girls in lingerie and bikinis until now, according to its developer: We uploaded nude topless pics today. This is the first app to have nudity

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First Apple-Approved iPhone Porn App [Nsfw]

This flute is the first musical instrument in the history of humankind—one of the first examples of technology—which has surprised everyone demonstrating that music already existed 35,000 years ago. Stone Age Rock Band, here we go

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35,000-year-old Flute Is First Instrument Ever [Music]

Exclusive: Bill Nye the Science Guy was gracious enough to elbow Matt out of the way and write a Giz Explains column, in which he tackles the science of “oleophobia,” and its relation to the new iPhone screen. The new 3GS iPhone has a coating that helps you leave no, well hardly any, prints–-fingerprints. The glass screen is coated with a polymer, a plastic that human skin oil doesn’t adhere to very well.

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Giz Bill Nye Explains: The iPhone 3GS’s Oleophobic Screen [Giz Explains]

Exclusive: Bill Nye the Science Guy was gracious enough to elbow Matt out of the way and write a Giz Explains column, in which he tackles the science of “oleophobia,” and its relation to the new iPhone screen. The new 3GS iPhone has a coating that helps you leave no, well hardly any, prints–-fingerprints. The glass screen is coated with a polymer, a plastic that human skin oil doesn’t adhere to very well.

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Giz Bill Nye Explains: The iPhone 3GS’s Oleophobic Screen [Giz Explains]

With Steve Jobs ’s consent, the Memphis hospital that conducted his liver transplant two months ago issued a statement denying he received any special treatment, classifying him as “the sickest person on the waiting list.” Presumably in response to the New York Times ‘ speculation that Jobs’ wealth and influence helped him secure a liver sooner than he might otherwise have, the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee issued a statement with Jobs’s consent that denied any such thing happened. “He received a liver transplant because he was the patient with the highest MELD score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) of his blood type and, therefore, the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available,” the hospital said. In addition, Tennessee has a much smaller waiting list than a larger state, like California, which also expedited the process.

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Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs’s Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment [Steve Jobs]

Lighting controls came out of the AV market. Audio/Visual technology evolved into Home Automation , and from there into lighting controls

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Energy-efficient lighting design | Green Compliance Plus – Mark …

The QNAP SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS is the smallest 8-bay networked attached storage solution on the market. In fact, it’s just a hair larger than a 7-inch cube. How is it so tiny

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QNAP SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS Shrinks Mega RAID to Notebook Sizes [Storage]

Cold Souls stars Paul Giamatti playing himself. In it, he discovers a company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people’s souls. Unfortunately, it turns out that when you take souls out of the body, a lucrative soul-trafficking business sprouts up.

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Cold Souls Shows a World Where Fancy Machines Capture Our Souls [Movies]